Saturday March 31st, 2012
Headed out to
SRS Hobbytown USA for some Saturday night club racing. I carpooled to SRS with my friends from
Wolf Pak Racing, and we got there around 2pm for we could get in a little practice. I have not been to this track since they changed the layout for the
Cactus Classic, which I regret not entering, but I plan on making the race next year, guaranteed. Dean from Wolfpak racing made the race this year, and you can see his full right up of the weekend over at the
Wolfpak Racing blog.
After getting our pit stall all setup, it was some time for some practice. I decided to get by HPI Blitz out, and try to see how it would fair. Unfortunately for me, after 3-4 laps of practice, I tried to be brave and jump the big triple in front of the drivers stand, and broke my rear body posts off the truck. So I decided to retire the truck for the night and break out my TLR Losi 22. After about 4 laps, I felt really comfortable with the buggy. It was handling great, and I was consistently hitting the triple without too much trouble.
For this nights racing, Dean and Dragi from Wolfpak and myself all decided to enter the novice open wheel class. We were hoping to get in some good practice as we were all pretty much green on the new track layout. We were also hoping that we would be racing with only open wheel vehicles, but unfortunately they decided to throw together all the novice entries, so we had pretty much every type of vehicle in the race, sigh.
On to the racing:
Round 1 (5 min Qualifier):
For round 1 I started of great, and was in first for about the first 3 laps, then I had a bad tumble over the big triple, and relented the lead over to Dean, after that I could nor catch him, and I ended up finishing in second. Unfortunately for Dragi he broke after 2 laps, and he was looking forward to improving in round 2.
Name: Laps Time Fast Lap
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Dean Vuckovich 10 5:22 31.549
Frank Lilly 9 5:32 34.637
Dragi Vuckovich 2 1:13 41.636
At the end of round 1 of racing, there was two groups of 9 drivers. Dean had the TQ, and was in 1st overall, I was in 4th overall for the A-Main.
Round 2 (5 min Qualifier):
For round 2, I drove about the same, and pulled 9 laps, but had a few hangups/bang-ups with some short course trucks that slowed me down some. Dean unfortunately broke on lap 5, and Dragi had a bad jump, and something went wrong with his steering, he finished the race, but was only able to pull 5 laps.
Name: Laps Time Fast Lap
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Frank Lilly 9 5:43 33.073
Dean Vuckovich 5 2:41 34.361
Dragi Vuckovich 5 5:22 50.475
At the end of round 2 of qualifying, Dean still had TQ and was holding on the the first spot, and i had dropped to 5th place overall.
B-Main (5 min):
I wish I was able to get better pictures for the results sheet. Dragi ended up finishing 2nd in the B-Main.
A-Main (5 min):
Dean had a great start for the race, and was having a great battle between him and Austin, but in the end, Dean pulled out for the victory. I had a horrible start to the race, and was tangled up in the big first turn crash, and then tumbled big time over the triple, and crossed over the starting line in last place on the first lap. I was able to make up a lot of ground and was able to finish in 5th place, once again with 9 laps.
